CHAPTER 81: 81

NYLAH

Sofia and I were allowed back into the hospital, thanks to my intervention. We were stunned and too shocked to get back to work.

How did things get to that point that we almost lost the hospital to a stranger? I didn’t care if he had a degree in medicine. He was a stranger, and that was the only warning I needed.

He was picked from the street, so to say, and the next minute was made the pack’s advisor. Now, he is out for the hospital. That wasn’t going to happen under my watch.

Sofia was exceptionally quiet after we returned to the hospital.

"During the last fight between this pack and Alpha Dmitri’s pack, I heard about the only surviving healer who is situated in a forest." I mentioned, and she nodded, looking blankly at me as she wondered what I wanted to do with him.

"Don’t you think we should go find him?" I asked, and she arched her brow.

"Does this have anything to do with you being the healer?" She asked, and I shook my head. I didn’t even see myself as the healer and the powerful person the store keepers said I was the last time. I just wanted to confirm what was going on from the healer who had lived a very long life and most likely knows everything about everyone.

"No, it’s not about me." I replied.

"I want us to ask about the old man. If he lived as long as the store keepers said he had, then he would be able to answer our questions." I added, and she nodded thoughtfully.

"So you want to confirm the old man’s identity..." I cut her off before she finished.

"..Story. I want to confirm his story. No one else in the pack knows him or has ever heard about him or even seen him before, only the Alpha’s brother and I don’t trust that. If he truly hears from the goddess the way he claims he does, then he would be a celebrity in the werewolf world by now."

"Everyone would be eager to meet him. He wouldn’t be in the abandoned house dying." I finished, and Sofia’s nod was more consistent.

Anyone who heard my reasoning would also agree with me.

"I agree with what you have said, but how do we get to the healer? The last I heard of him, the person who managed to get across to the forest where he chose to remain till his death said that he refused to return with him. He said he wasn’t going to leave the forest until the goddess said it was time for him to go to his ancestors." Sofia informed me.

I could see the look of disappointment on her face.

"Do you have any idea why he chose to isolate himself?" I asked, curious at the unusual behaviour.

Why would he choose to isolate himself even though he knew that he was the only hope of healing in the whole realm? A lot of wolves would lose their lives with his unreachability, but he didn’t seem to care.

"It’s a tragic one." Sofia mentioned.

"It was said that he lost his child and grandchild who were supposed to be healers like him, and nothing was done about it. The Alpha’s and packs he served did nothing about it, and he mourned and grieved for years. When he could no longer take it, he left and remained in the forest."

"All the wolves who went to find him all died on their way to him. There were a lot of obstacles on the way, and they couldn’t defeat them all. The only man who succeeded in getting to him told the other wolves that the healer practically chased him out of his shed. And told him never to return. He even told him to tell people that he was no more."

My eyes widened at the information.

"He really doesn’t want to be found." I muttered, and just when Sofia’s expression morphed into an understanding one, I added.

"Too bad. We are going to find him and get him to tell us some things his old brain knows." Sofia’s eyes widened at my words.

"Do you know the meaning of what you are saying?" She asked, still wide-eyed.

I nodded with smiles.

"We need a plan to be able to go there without leaving the pack hospital unguarded by one of us. As soon as the both of us are no longer within sight, the hospital will be taken care of, and once the hospital is taken care of, the heart of the pack has been gotten. It will be very easy to get the pack down." I calculated.

Sofia just stared at me. She was stunned that I was really going to do what I said I would, but I didn’t act like I even saw her expression.

"Do you know anyone who can give us an estimate of how long it will take us to get to him in the forest? Also, anyone who knows the forest so well and has travelled that far. That male wolf who succeeded in meeting him will be a good idea." I added, and Sofia shook her head.

"I don’t think the Alpha will allow you to make such a trip." She muttered, her tone against the idea.

"Who said he was going to know where I am going to?" I asked with a smile, and she shook her head. Further against my decision but it was just an idea.

We still had to wait for an expert who knows his way around the forest, and we also needed to get a handyman. It was a lot to put together, and I wasn’t certain we would find those easily, so I still had time to cook up lies for the Alpha when it was time.

Sofia and I did a thing or two at the hospital. There wasn’t really much to do. We headed for the pack kitchen when we finished, and we saw the pack advisor also in the kitchen, waiting for his food too.

He totally ignored us like we didn’t walk into the kitchen as well.

"I guess we crushed his balls a little. Someone doesn’t look happy." Sofia whispered through her teeth into my ears, and I stifled a laugh.

"I’m going to cheer him up a bit." She added and walked out from behind me towards him. I called her back in a whisper.

"Sofia, don’t go, come..." it was already too late, she was heading for the old man.